Word For The Day, Thursday, September 4, 2003

The Verbivores | 9/4/03 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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fatuous \FACH-oo-us\, adjective:
fatuousness; noun
fatuously; adverb

1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish.
2. Without reality; illusory
3. Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish
4. Delusive; unreal.

"Publishers persist in the fatuous belief that a little hocus-pocus in the front flap blurb will so dazzle readers that they'll be too dazed to notice the quality of what's on the pages inside." Irish Times, October 7, 1997

Etymology: [Latin fatuus, foolish, idiotic, silly..]

[Gabz]

"slut-pusher"

[Gabz]

I know you do - why do you think I whine to you!!!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Flesh peddler.

[Texan5]

I don't either, unless I go on post in the city to the commissary or px-they still hang out in the parking lots of the topless bars on the main drag near the base.

[xsmommy]

working at home, with no kids here, is a luxury. even with the 3 in diff schools, i think this year will be easier than previous years. hope i am not speaking too soon.

[NeoCaveman]

Sounds good, but is it un-PC because it has the word "whore" in it?

ya they are now compensated service providers, unless they are cheap whores, they are now affordable service providers. So pimps would be facillitators for compensated service providers.

[Texan5]

That's a good one, too.

[Gabz]

The chewing stage is the one thing I have always disliked about puppies!!!

I will not tell you what my arms and legs look like because of the little beast!!!

[Texan5]

Another good one! Miss Rika would be proud of us-we are so creative!

[Gabz]

My bad - forgot the smiley at the end of that crack - I knew what you were saying. She knows from now on to come get mommy or daddy!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Maybe they were white trash. Sam Walton looked like a hardware store hick right til the end.

[Texan5]

Uh oh...Be careful what you say. There's an evil genie just waiting...

[Conspiracy Guy]

Those days are gone for me. I miss the grease and the oil though.

[Gabz]

working at home, with no kids here, is a luxury.

Don't let the bosses know that - they will expect you in the office every day.

[Texan5]

Now that's pc! You get the Jesse Jackass pc diversity award-lunch with hillary clinton at McDonalds.

[xsmommy]

dubs you sound disturbingly like a bureaucrat!

[honeygrl]

Remember that Hodar guy that pissed me off so badly on the bikini thread we met on? He's on one of the Terri Schiavo threads now trying to be the one opposing voice in the discussion. (i've been following *very* close to the Terri story) I'm thinking he's nothing more than a troll whereever he goes.

[Gabz]

You need psychiatric help - or at least stop watching CNN so much.

[Texan5]

I hope to miss it soon, too-I put a sink in the utility room right by the door with GoJo and Lava soap on the counter so that hubby has no excuse not to make me nostalgic for oil and grease in the rest of the house. Its' the only way he can get me to go out to the garage and help him change the plugs in that car-you have to take the front wheels off to get to them! You can't buy an extension long enough to reach them. Dumbest design Chevy ever did, in my opinion.

[RikaStrom]

My lord woman, stop giving me gray hairs...

LOL.. no